There’s also https://forgefed.org/

Doing more fedi posting on reddit. If you’re on reddit and don’t mind being a fediverse evangelist, please go hit this thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i87yy8/pixelfed_smashes_kickstarter_campaign_goal_on_day/

Yeah well maybe they should come here.

That’s the idea!

“just go on lemmy brah”

This works. Please do so politely.

Fedi observer does something like this.

My personal view on this is Dansup absolutely suffers from the instinct of not open sourcing stuff until it’s fairly late in the stage of being an MVP, but I think that’s largely because he’s learning these technologies as he goes and is afraid of criticism on that front. Personally, however, I do not think it is the case that he does not believe in the Open Source project. I also trust him when he says he’s working towards a nonprofit to distribute the load. It seems his first steps are to get funding via kickstarter to quit his job, and then I imagine organizing a nonprofit structure is next.

Generally, I don’t believe it’s actually an issue with complication. There’s just a resistance to change. That said there’s still significant onus on those invested in the fediverse to make sure It Just Works^tm

What I notice is that people really like the ‘my story’ functionality of instagram. It’s a nice way to share some random stuff, without it being on the internet ‘exposed forever and for everybody’. And you can share also something with only close friends, or just followers, etc

It does have stories just not supported in the official app yet.

Dansup absolutely suffers from the instinct of not open sourcing stuff until it’s fairly late in the stage of being an MVP, but I think that’s largely because he’s learning these technologies as he goes and is afraid of criticism on that front. Personally, however, I do not think it is the case that he does not believe in the Open Source project. I also trust him when he says he’s working towards a nonprofit to distribute the load. It seems his first steps are to get funding via kickstarter to quit his job, and then I imagine organizing a nonprofit structure is next.

Crazy enough. People are posting what they were posting on instagram.

Eh I’m not sure this is something we should be doing normally, but I’m thinking of this moment as more or less an emergency. That said, I certainly wouldn’t mind a place to share resources and graphics for getting people switched over.

They’ve gained several maintainers since it took off! Hopefully Dansup can transition to a more sustainable model soon though.

Crossposted over to reddit. Posting here worked really well last time so:

If you’re on reddit and don’t mind being a fediverse evangelist, please go hit this thread:

https://reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i7kbvt/fed_up_with_instagram_how_to_move_your_photos_to/

Naw there’s serious momentum for an exit. Most subreddits are banning X links. Anecdotally a lot of people who I would have never expected have reached out to me about Instagram alternatives. We have power here. Let’s not squander it by pretending we don’t.

I agree but let’s be honest. That may be how it worked in revolutionary France but that wasn’t how it worked in the US in the 20th century. The “3rd Places” that most people were involved in were union halls, civic organizations, and social societies. We’ve largely forgotten that history, but it’s not something we can get back without organizing online first.

Honestly I think the answer is BlueSky. For all the problems that people have with it, it’s going to be much more successful in getting people off the Nazi platforms. What’s more X->BlueSky->Mastodon seems easier than X->Mastodon for most people.

Gotta be. It was right after I made the edit.

Didn’t say but I’m pretty sure it’s because I edited to add lemmy specific information. In particular I mentioned the apps

Damn we had a good run.

EDIT: We’ll Streisand em

Checked the rules and I think this is allowed? But if you’ve still got reddit and don’t mind being a fediverse evangelist please go consider hitting this thread: https://reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only/

Checked the rules and I think this is allowed? But if you’ve still got reddit and don’t mind being a fediverse evangelist please go hit this thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only/